In Reply to: Re: Wish you all the best OT2...great, how you keep going posted by OT2 on January 15, 2010 at 14:15:58:
Really great post OT2...I had to read it twice, to let it sink in...I appreciate your wisdom in it...I agree, people outside TF start at least thinking for themselves...even if the results of my reflections on the same subject aren't even remotely equal to that of someone else...as disturbing at it can be...one has to learn to handle that.
(you wrote:At least some of those points of view of people opposing what they view as regular Christians being unknowing and bigotedly against a "homogenized, all-inclusive approach to God" are NOT TF, now, and they are TRYING to think for themselves after a longtime cult membership.
That in ITSELF is good, IMO. It is a start!
Perhaps the habit will grow (that of independent thinking, and the value of actual experience) to where they can question spiritual beliefs originating from spirits not of God.)
Although there might be no need to be direct and personal, I want to avoid possible mix ups and say that my comment had nothing to do with MG...it was rather something before, about a thread on religious freedom/liberty in India...I kind of forgot, that you can really relate to that subject so well too, from personal experience.
While I do not expect people to respect my personal analysis or opinion, I do get frustrated, when results/findings of organisations even like amnesty international don't get a due respect.That is "scary" (reminds of news/knowledge-filtration in the sect)...while on the one hand you get attacked as being "closed/narrowminded"...on the other facts and information is screened at leisure or will, to support a private stance... I do uphold/believe that no human being is perfectly objective, Christians of course included...only God as supreme judge is and can be...still the Bible tells us, that one day Christians shall pass judgement...not before time 1.Cor.4:5...1.Cor.6:2 etc...yet it warns the world and Jews of the time...that with the judgement people judge, they are judged themselves...I wonder how some will fare then...sounding at the moment rather like having two measurements...one for themselves and one for Christians...It's anyway quite widespread, that the world expects of the religious people and also Christians a whole lot but some play that card at leisure, also to escape conviction...for "all have sinned"...applying that for a change to themselves.What I don't appreciate too much, if someone in hyperbolic speech..tells me 0.3 is an integer number...sorry, that's either ridicule on my still somewhat existing intelligence or the person itself is more ignorant, than he/she poses his/herself to be...and that is in both instances less amusing...but again, thanks for your word of wisdom here
Anyway South-Asia is pretty much a "religious hotspot"...if you have Muslims as adamant/warfaring monotheists and Hindus as devout polytheists and idolworshippers in the same region...you either have one side giving in...or getting weakened through secularity/materialism - both unlikely in my eyes - or every now and then pitted strongly against each other, with heartbreaking losses on both sides
Of course the endtimescenario IMO is a bigger abondonement of God-worship..."atheism"...to "make people behave"...here are some clips more about how heated up the "sentiments" can get overthere...still...and anyone who doesn't consider them...among others...while writing on the boards...has a "good" edition/fabricate of pink/rosecoloured glasses...I won't take sides easily, because atrocities were on both sides...be it Muslim or Hindu
13 yr old Hindu girl speaks out against Anti-India forces at a VHP rally
A Question of Faith - India
killing of christians by hindu terror
Newspaper editor arrested for criticizing RSS
MANGALORE PUB RAMPAGE BY HINDU FANATICS
New Prophet Says Islam is Darkness, Problem for Humanity
but there are changes also possible from Saul to Paul:
converted to Christianity from being a persecutor of Christians to become a worshipper of Jesus Christ
Jesus the healer of David, INDIA